Fillmore Redevelopment: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
(added unused photos) |
||
| (12 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[Image: | '''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | ||
[[Image:WA vacant lot1.jpg|720px]] | |||
'''Vacant lot in the Western Addition A-2 redevelopment zone along Geary Blvd.''' | |||
''Photo: Aero Photographers, courtesy San Francisco Redevelopment Agency'' | |||
[[Image:A-1-and-a-2-map.jpg]] | |||
'''Map of A-1 and A-2 Redevelopment Project Areas''' | |||
''Map: San Francisco Redevelopment Agency'' | |||
[[Image:1961-aerial-of-Western-Addition-A-1-clearance-looking-east.jpg]] | |||
'''Aerial shot of Western Addition A-1 in 1961''' | '''Aerial shot of Western Addition A-1 in 1961''' | ||
| Line 5: | Line 19: | ||
''photo: Ed Brady'' | ''photo: Ed Brady'' | ||
Redevelopment was started early in WWII when future planning commissioners Morgan Gunst and Julia Porter formed the SF Planning and Housing Association (SFPHA). SFPHA published a number of influential studies, including the 1945 | Redevelopment was started early in WWII when future planning commissioners Morgan Gunst and Julia Porter formed the SF Planning and Housing Association (SFPHA). SFPHA published a number of influential studies, including the 1945 ''Blight and Taxes'', which first identified the Western Addition as a prime candidate for urban renewal, citing its poor health statistics, high delinquency rates and packing it with racially loaded metaphors: "[The Western Addition] is not white. It is gray, brown, and an indeterminate shade of dirty black ... it is an unfortunate blot," unlike the Marina District, which the same report described as "clean and bright". | ||
[[Image:Family-on-porch-in-western-addition-c1950s long-view.jpg]] | |||
'''Family on porch in Western Addition, c. 1959.''' | |||
''Photo: Kurt Bank'' | |||
Its desirable location, just to the west of the Civic Center and the city's commercial core, south of the oldest, richest neighborhood, and home to several major hospitals and churches made it | Its desirable location, just to the west of the Civic Center and the city's commercial core, south of the oldest, richest neighborhood, and home to several major hospitals and churches made it "potentially worth far more, for it is in the heart of a growing city, and anyone can see its latent value." (B&T). These latent values could only be acquired through [[Redevelopment and Patronage Politics|co-opting opposition]], opening the door to [[Western Addition Speculators sidebar|speculators]]. | ||
''--Chris Carlsson'' | ''--Chris Carlsson'' | ||
[[Image:WA Foster Klieser Bldg-now MLK Housing.jpg|720px]] | |||
'''Foster Klieser Building on Eddy between Steiner and Peirce, early 1960s.''' | |||
''Photo: Aero Photographers, courtesy San Francisco Redevelopment Agency'' | |||
[[The Fillmore: Black SF | Prev. Document]] [[WACO Attacks Redevelopment | Next Document]] | [[The Fillmore: Black SF | Prev. Document]] [[WACO Attacks Redevelopment | Next Document]] | ||
<hr> | |||
[[Image:Tours-redev.gif|link=WACO Attacks Redevelopment]] [[WACO Attacks Redevelopment| Continue Redevelopment Tour]] | |||
[[category:African-American]][[category:Western Addition]][[category:gentrification]][[category:1940s]] [[category:1950s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:redevelopment]] | |||
Latest revision as of 15:47, 3 April 2013
Unfinished History
Vacant lot in the Western Addition A-2 redevelopment zone along Geary Blvd.
Photo: Aero Photographers, courtesy San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Map of A-1 and A-2 Redevelopment Project Areas
Map: San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Aerial shot of Western Addition A-1 in 1961
photo: Ed Brady
Redevelopment was started early in WWII when future planning commissioners Morgan Gunst and Julia Porter formed the SF Planning and Housing Association (SFPHA). SFPHA published a number of influential studies, including the 1945 Blight and Taxes, which first identified the Western Addition as a prime candidate for urban renewal, citing its poor health statistics, high delinquency rates and packing it with racially loaded metaphors: "[The Western Addition] is not white. It is gray, brown, and an indeterminate shade of dirty black ... it is an unfortunate blot," unlike the Marina District, which the same report described as "clean and bright".
Family on porch in Western Addition, c. 1959.
Photo: Kurt Bank
Its desirable location, just to the west of the Civic Center and the city's commercial core, south of the oldest, richest neighborhood, and home to several major hospitals and churches made it "potentially worth far more, for it is in the heart of a growing city, and anyone can see its latent value." (B&T). These latent values could only be acquired through co-opting opposition, opening the door to speculators.
--Chris Carlsson
Foster Klieser Building on Eddy between Steiner and Peirce, early 1960s.
Photo: Aero Photographers, courtesy San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
